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Jim Kolbe: “Reclaiming my time, without commenting on the specifics of the litigation because I am not familiar with each of them…”

On the recordJuly 13, 1995
Reclaiming my time, without commenting on the specifics of the litigation because I am not familiar with each of them, my answer to that would be no. What we seek to do by this reduction of 50 percent and terminating it in the second year is to give it an orderly time to phase out what I just mentioned are, I think, the worthwhile parts of this program, to retain that.
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Jim Kolbe
Arizona

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Discussing a proposed reduction and phase-out of a program during a House floor debate.

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